じらい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of じらい – see the following entries.

【爾来】 [adverb] from that time on, ever since, since then, after that Alternative spelling 而来

【地雷】 [noun] land mine [noun] (informal) something that can trigger or enrage someone; taboo [noun] (slang, sensitive) "land mine", used in metaphor for a person (especially a girl) who turns out to be troublesome and unstable as a romantic relationship progresses; and also associated with a fashion of black cutesy clothing with pink highlights often treated as an antithesis to 量産型.

(This term, じらい, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)